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🩰 The Wasped World

I'm reading this as equal parts capoeira, Constantine, and Potsdam Giants, and I love it. I can't explain why, but I think this is some of your best world building yet. It's more refined, hinting at future stories, not giving too much away... it's really well done.
-tbj

🌵 The Wasped World

Not as long, but a great sequel - which is arguably better. The audience loves the first movie, just give them more of what they want. I love addressing the specific ways each group does contortion. It's like an arms race and certain techniques would be tantamount to national secrets, or even WMDs, in some cases.

Bad writers just tell you a thing exists, a good writer makes you care about how it fits in the story and what it can be used for, and in a way that allows the reader to drop themselves into someone else's shoes and really, satisfyingly, answers "what if...". It's so effing good! Not just explaining a thing, but being able to pick a reader up and put them into someone else, with different needs and drives, and be able to be someone else for even a paragraph of description. Or worse, they'll create a character with a bunch of back story and affectations that have fuck all to do with living, literarily, into a new world.

I don't really like reading fiction - I'm way more happy reading manuals and stuff. I look forward to each and every story you put out. I love getting to live in Yunia, even in small bursts.
-tbj

Thank you so much for reading! Very glad you enjoyed the different styles of contortion! :3 It took me years of development and discarding a lot of ideas that led nowhere but I think the final concept is finally starting to take shape. Better late than never, I guess.

The problem with arms race is that waist-cinching and contortion are not "really" weapons as they are useless against fellow humans (other than entertaining them). You can't save yourself from a blow by tugging the belt tighter and if your own attack involves flexibility that would probably only make it weaker. But in battles against evil spirits it's different. Who knows, maybe human bodies were actually designed to perform contortion as a weapon against some ancient evil forces. And then they lost their ways and the superpowers turned into mere entertainment or fetishes like it happened in our world ;D

Actually I took the idea of tight-belting to protect against evil spirits from some real world folklore, like, in some countries in the past people actually believed that if you go unbelted then you make yourself open to the devil and might even get possessed, except their belts weren't that tight :P

I'm very glad you enjoy these small stories about Yunia, in fact all my stories are standalone so I believe you can read any of them without reading the rest.

🗻 The Wasped World

The story is so amazing I forgot to mention the art. I'm so sorry... and you're doing a great job of doing... is there a word for twinks but with muscles? Also, how long did all the touchup work take?

Again, I'm sorry for the extra post. I had to tell you that muscles and the cinching... that's not a bad look. You're winning me over.
-tbj

Wow, thank you so much! I don't remember how long it took, I rarely finish something in a single day because on the next day I usually see some mistakes and potential changes, so I retouch it over and over, then at some point it's hard to make a change without making it worse, so there I stop :D But if I had to estimate, maybe 5-6 hours in total? But it's really hard to say as I made lots of refinements here and it was over the course of a few weeks.

I mean I know this kind of art that involves the use of ai tools is hard to properly measure in terms of "effort". We just have to live through this ice age because in the future there will be no such a thing as art that doesn't involve ai tools, artists will just learn it as a standard part of the process.

I also enjoy that combination (muscles and wasp waists), also wide hips and thick legs make it even hotter. Nothing against skinny guys either, would suck a ribcage any day, haha :D

I effing love this! This is your best writing yet and I've been waiting to feel better to tackle it.

Your writing always has a good flow, very poetic, but this really feels like proper storytelling. I don't know if that makes sense...

I love the lore. I adore the idea of using cinchers and corsets in the place of magic wands. I keep thinking about the fights in the first Dr. Storage, and an army of contortionist using their bodies instead of their hands would be brilliant.

On to the next one. I'm so excited!
-tbj

Haha, thank you so much! I didn't know it was my best story yet but for me this one is important because it finally features the new concept I had for waist-cinching and contortion, with them being actual important practices in this world. So I guess this story kind of splits the lore to before and after, in a way :D

Yeah, I'm usually inspired more by the format of short stories like "The Thousand and One Night" or the tales about Robin Hood, etc, than long ass novels. Novels are great but it's not something I can do, I guess it's like powerlifting, there are world class athletes breaking records and then there are regular fit people. Here I tried to lift a bit more and span it across several chapters, but I think it only worked for 3-4 chapters, the later chapters are not so well connected and just talk about their own thing ^^;

I'm very happy to know you liked the lore, hopefully it will be fun to expand with more ideas over time! :D

⛅ Angel of Contortion

There's a sense of scale here that I missed at first. I really love their scale compared to the clouds. It just adds something extra that's better somehow.
-tbj

🗿 Marble Snake

Just... how. Imagining this isn't impossible, but then to figure out how to represent it is amazing. It's just beautiful and fun.
-tbj

🎥 Blurred Memories

It is an amazing show. I still have a copy of that stabilised version. It's enthralling.
-tbj

📙 Next Generation

Awww... That was super sweet. I love it!
-tbj

💤 Please Stand By...

That's a hell of a security lock. Not a fingerprint, now you not only have to know, but then be able to perform, the right contortion? So becoming more flexible arguably is a hacking skill?
-tbj

🗺️ Map of Yunia

Jesus... Six hours?

Yeah. Totally worth it. This is awesome. :)
-tbj

I'm glad it looks good already! But to be honest I should do it again sometime, the technology is a dozen times better now and I have a hundred more tricks up the sleeve! :D

⛲ Elbend

It's like a Thomas Kink-ade.

I'll sit down and be quiet.
-tbj

🌵 Al-Hedsit

There's so much going on in this pic that it almost feels like a Where's Waldo.

I was just explaining to someone a bit of hidden story in the Zelda games about the Gerudo. They're clearly Arabic inspired but their first song, "Gerudo Valley", is Flamenco. It makes sense if you know that the Moors were persecuted and forced to Andalusia, along with Jews, Gypsies, and Gitanos. Flamenco is a blending of all those styles. It could explain why the Gerudo are exiled to such a harsh desert where nobody else wants to be, why they have been referred to as "thieves"... It points to a dark history in Hyrule that's only referenced in passing by a musical style of one song.

That's what a lot of your stuff is like when you go crazy with the detail. :)
-tbj

Wow, that's some really interesting insight into the Gerudo and their connection to Flamenco music! I had no idea about the historical background behind it, but it definitely adds another layer of depth to the Zelda universe. It's always fun to discover new connections and meanings 😊📚🎵

🌵 Al-Hedsit detail 1

To me, it's that he's clearly not dressed or in any way prepared to be in such a harsh environment, and there's nowhere apparent that he's heading, but he's so confident that he has to be doing something with great purpose.

I also love that the path looks like it's a dry riverbed that's normally used as a road. Like, maybe it floods once in a blue moon? Maybe that's his purpose? He's going to bring the water somehow?

You do enigma super well, and I really appreciate that you seldom explain it. We don't always need mysteries to be solved. One of the biggest letdowns ever was when I learned how Teflon sticks to the pan, but is a non-stick surface. It was way more exciting to not know.
-tbj

Thank you for your thoughtful comment on my work. I appreciate your insight into the enigma aspect of it and agree with you that leaving some things unknown can be exciting. Your analysis of the figure in the painting and the path is spot on. It would be interesting to see the students of magic revive the riverbed one day and use it for travel by boat and swimming. Thank you again for your comment, it means a lot to me!

🌵 Al-Hedsit detail 2

Of all your world building, I love your dialogue the most. Seriously. You always do such brilliant dialogue.

I love that they look like shitty, bickering, kids. It's such a great look at what happens when nobody's looking, kind of thing... But the dialogue is still the stand out. It's that good.
-tbj

Oh wow, thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the dialogue and the characters' banter. I had a lot of fun writing their interactions, and it's great to know that it comes across well. I appreciate your kind words! 😊💬

📟 Shinobi Kid Screenshot?!

First of all, I want to apologise for missing an obvious reference when I was being an idiot about a Yuni-branded console... It should be a 44.44 bit system.

Did you ever play the Dragon Ball fighting game for Super Famicom? The one feature it had that I've never seen again (I'm sure other games have, I just don't know of them - I stopped playing fighting games at Street Fighter 2 Turbo Champion Ultimate Deluxe Mega Rainbow Handjob Edition and Samurai Shodown 2) was you could move beyond the bounds of the "screen"... Meaning it would split the screen to indicate you weren't right in front of each other any more, and you could unload with long range attacks. I could see this fighting game having those kind of really interesting features that never caught on for some reason.

I'm obsessed with anachronistic, obscure, games and technology. I've always wanted to make my own version, but I'm not talented enough in anything to tackle any aspect of it.

You at least need to do their "bounce" animations. You know, when the character's not moving, and their idle is to kind of bounce on the balls of their feet? Or like how Bridget did that little dance of his...
www.fightersgeneration.com/characters/bridgetspriteani.gif
-tbj

🤹‍♂️ Yasen the Jester

Three thoughts...

This is so cute, and I love the story. My mind wandered at the end, and I wondered if you've ever done a character who's super flexy, but otherwise completely awkward and clumsy?

I love that your personal style comes through no matter what... Something about a big, toothy, overbite, grin is so appealing.

Lastly, Yasen is such a cute character and I love everything you find to do with him. There's something about him that makes him a very flexible character (not just physically). He can be so innocently erotic, whether male or female, or whether he's licking his own butt... There's always an erotic sweetness in his pictures.
-tbj

😎 Unbreakable Summer

Now THIS could be Capcom game art. I'd love to see him cosplaying as Elena. I really love to see you experimenting and having fun.
-tbj

🧰 The Problem is Back

This is another pic that reminds me of the "Thanatophobia" episode of Aeon Flux. There would have to be characters that are super bendy, but only because of a problem. Like a boi who is extra flexible because his bones never fully hardened, so he just has firm cartilage like a shark?

This is cute and really enjoyable.
-tbj

A Corsetiere's Dream

It makes me think of Kayan people. I'm surprised you haven't done a corset that works like the rings, to not only cinch but also elongate the torso, while allowing them to bend like crazy...

When did I start having opinions on your wasping art?
-tbj